Wessex Tales (1973)🔸A Tragedy of Two Ambitions (E3)💢

♾️ A Tragedy of Two Ambitions: Like a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability. ♾️ It features Paul Rogers, John Hurt, David Troughton, Lynne Frederick, and Edward Petherbridge. ♾️ Wessex Tales is a British BBC television anthology drama series, which was originally broadcast in 1973. Based on short stories written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. In the various tales, Hardy writes of the true nature of nineteenth-century marriage and its inherent restrictions.